Kursawka

Village Kursavka Курсавка Federal district North Caucasus region Stavropol Rajon Andropowski head Tatiana Degtjaryova Founded 1875 Earlier names Kursawski population 11,830 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 410  m Time zone UTC + 3 Telephone code (+7) 86556 Post Code 357070 License Plate 26, 126 OKATO 07 232 810 001 Website www.kursavka.info Geographical location Coordinates 44 ° 27 '  N , 42 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 27 '30 "  N , 42 ° 29' 43"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in the Stavropol Territory

List of large settlements in Russia

Kursawka ( Russian Курса́вка ) is a village (selo) in the Stavropol region in Russia with 11,830 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is on the northern edge of the Greater Caucasus , in the southern part of the Stavropol mountain range , about 75 km as the crow flies southeast of the regional administrative center of Stavropol and about halfway between the cities of Nevinnomyssk and Mineralnye Vody . It is located on the upper course of the left Kuma tributary Surkul and the Kurschawka, which flows into it from the right, which only occasionally has water . The Great Stavropol Irrigation Canal runs a few kilometers to the west .

Kursavka is the administrative center Rajons Andropowski and seat of the rural community selsowet (selskoje posselenije) Kursawski, also includes almost immediately northwest subsequent village Surkul to.

history

The village goes back to the Kursawski settlement , which arose around the railway station of the same name on the Rostov-on-Don  - Vladikavkas line after it opened in 1875.

In the 1920s the place developed into an important agricultural center of the area and in February 1924 it became the administrative seat of the Kursawski rajon named after im. Before the 1950s, the current place name form became relevant. During World War II , Kursawka was occupied by the German Wehrmacht from August 1942 to mid-1943 .

After a temporary dissolution from 1963 to 1970, the Rajon got its current name in 1984 after the politician Yuri Andropow , who died in the same year and who was born in Stanitsa Nagutskaya (today the village of Soluno-Dmitijewskoje ), 20 km from Kursawka .

Population development

year	Residents
1909	335
1939	3,990
1959	4,396
1979	7,724
1989	9,625
2002	10,848
2010	11,830

Note: from 1939 census data

traffic

The railway station of the same name is located in Kursawka at kilometer 1781 (from Moscow ) on the Rostov-on-Don - Vladikavkas / -  Makhachkala  - Baku railway that has been electrified on this section since 1963 . The federal highway R217 Kawkas (formerly M29) passes north of the village, which also leads along the northeastern edge of the Caucasus to the Azerbaijani border.

Web links

• Official website of the local government (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)